We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service.

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.

There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.